Livelihood Adaptation Strategy of Farmers Related to Peri-Urbanization in North Bandung

• Main Author: Putri, Gita
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Perencanaan wilayah
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/40745
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The urbanization phenomenon began to spread to peri-urban area, also called periurbanization. As a result, multi-dimensional changes occur not only in urban areas, but also in the rural areas. This changes also occurs in Lembang District which is the peri-urban area of Metropolitan Bandung Raya. The construction of hotels, cafes and restaurants, the conversion of agricultural land, and the entry of migrants would have impacts on the Lembang community, which still use agriculture as a major source of livelihood. As a result, farmers have to adapt using multiple new strategies to survive in the midst of such change. But having low education and skills, a limited access to capital, narrow land tenure, and limited infrastructure hinder them from utilizing such strategies. Therefore, this study was conducted to describe farmers’ livelihood strategies in the midst of peri-urbanization. The results of this study are expected to be able to broaden the horizons related to urbanization phenomenon in peri-urban area and to help future planning and current management strategy of peri-urban area. Through appropriate policy program in maintaining and improving farmer's prosperity amid changes related to urbanization. Because of the time and cost constraints, this study only focused on the farmers and tenant farmers. The study area was determined through the scoring method by looking at the reduction of agricultural land area and the number of migrants in 16 villages within Lembang Sub-district. Three villages with high urbanization rate were selected in purposive manner: Gudang Kahuripan Village, Kayuambon Village, and Jayagiri Village. iv The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The number of questionnaires was determined using the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) method because the number of respondents was too many. After that, the results of questionnaire and interview surveys were analyzed using descriptive qualitative method. This method is chosen to get the results of research that can provide a complete and comprehensive picture so that it can be used to answer the objectives and targets of research. The result of the analysis shows that the alternative livelihood strategies mostly used in the study area are diversification and intensification of agriculture. The possible knowledge and experience of farming, coupled with enough resources (land, skills, and networking), as well as open market opportunities, leads to a considerable number of respondents implementing this livelihood strategy. On the other hand, the least used livelihood strategy in the study area is migration. This strategy is least used because the respondent mostly old, and reluctant to move, they already feel at home in their current village because they have lived in their village all their life, almost all of the respondents are working on the land located in the same village as their residence. From this research it can be concluded that the respondents in the study area need to get support both with training and financially. Both can be channeled through a well formed farmer group. In addition, respondents also need support from the local government to help and facilitates them to sell their goods to hotels / restaurants / tours located within the study area or close to the study area so as to open new markets and increase the respondent’s income.